CEOs Say America Is Running Out of Meat—While Shipping Ever More Pork Overseas
Koldunov/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Back in March, the coronavirus started triggering infection hotspots in and around meatpacking plants, sickening and killing workers. As local public health authorities pushed giant meat conglomerates to close infected facilities, industry executives warned that doing so was “pushing our country…
Amazon VP Quits in Protest, Highlighting Big Tech’s Firings of Minority, Women, and LGBTQ Labor Activists
A worker protests labor conditions outside of an Amazon warehouse on May 1, 2020, in Staten Island. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday, Tim Bray, an Amazon vice president, wrote a scathing letter announcing he was leaving the company over its “chickenshit” decision to terminate…
California Is Suing Uber and Lyft for Misclassifying Workers
Mario Tama/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Tuesday that the state is suing Uber and Lyft for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. “We intend to make sure that Uber or Lyft play by the rules,” Becerra said.…
“Designed to Create a Climate of Fear”: Amazon VP Quits After Company Fires Activists
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Tim Bray, a vice president at Amazon, announced he’s leaving the company because of the “chickenshit” firing of activists who spoke about conditions at the company’s massive warehouses. Friday was my last day at Amazon: https://t.co/kXYDPdNbs7[Server’s running a little hot but give…
An Uprising Is Still Possible, Even if We Can’t Meet in the Streets
Jeff Roberson/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.How do you have a mass revolt without a mob? Prof. Frances Fox Piven is the 87-year-old “intellectual guru of activist progressives”—so sayeth the New York Times. Her work, she explained to me, is about “uprisings that sometimes occur when there’s…
“The Workers Are Being Sacrificed”: As Cases Mounted, Meatpacker JBS Kept People on Crowded Factory Floors
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On her phone, Crystal Rodriguez keeps a photo of her father hooked up to a ventilator. Nurses at the hospital sent her the image after he’d spent close to a month in the intensive care unit at UCHealth Medical Center of the…